I want to visualize a twitter network consisting of the following list of all the people in someones following list for my thesis. Currently i use the friends/ids.json but i am limited to 15 requests every 15 minutes and that is waaaay too slow. Is there a faster way to do it? Or is there any service for academic purposes that can help?

Make sure you set count=5000 parameter for friends/ids, also using Application Only Auth, https://dev.twitter.com/oauth/application-only will get you an extra 15 calls, so you can get 30 requests, each retrieving 5000 ids every 15 minutes.

I think the suggestion that @IgorBrigadir mentions is the best way to improve your process here. I’m not aware of any current plans to increase the limits for these endpoints, although we did tweak some of the other API limits recently in response to developer feedback.

i used application only auth. Also i made the code for the api call because using a library was limiting( or i was doing something wrong ).

My new problem now is that i keep some information for every user so i have to call users/show.json which is also limited at a very low limit. The reason i want this information is another program i found on the internet that visualizes thes network. Does anybody know a better and more efficient way to visualize a polarized network?(tools,codes anything )

i have to call users/show.json which is also limited at a very low limit.

When you say “very low limit” - the rate limit on the users/show endpoint is 900 calls in a 15 minute window, which is one of the higher ones. You could also use users/lookup (also 900/15 min for user auth) which enables you to pass in up to 100 user IDs at a time. What information are you trying to retrieve?

For some reason after 15 requests i get a rate limit exceeded message. I want to make a graph to show the polarization over a topic. The current program i use requirs these things but i am sure there is something better out there